The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-06-04
CURRENT TOPICS.

HuRoN, OAK, has organized "Homely
Mans Club"
EDWIN BooTu has netted 100000 for his
seasons work.
The wedding veil Of recent Boston
bride cost $a,OOO
CYRUS w. FIELD began life at 81 week
and now has $20,OOOOOO
TUCSON, ARIz., has six insanity cases
due to the late earthquake,
A BRooKLYN child has recovered 100
from railway for five fingers lost.
ANOTHER bad marksman has been max
ing an attempt on the life of the Car.
FoR the third year in succession the hop
crop is declared to be an utter failure.
KANSAS has nine counties, esch ono
larger than the State of Rhode Island.
A RAILROAD is to be built across South
america from the Atlantic to the Pacific,
FRENcnMAN has invented telephone
which costs but sixty-two and half
cents
OSTRICH farming Is prospcrng in Cali
lorna. Good feathers are fetching 500 q
pound.
In the course of his career as show
man, Barnum says he has taken $SO, ,OOO, 600
''at the door'
The Mexican government has pensioned
mother who Gowns up" TO twenty-eig ght
living children.
KANSAS farmers report that the red ants
are waging war Of determination against
the chinch bugs.
NEW YORK has just given out contracts
Tor $l6,OOO worth Of music in the city parks
for the summer
THE Gar of Russia allows no one to
speak to him Of his troubles. He does not
believe in being surfeited.
A SINGLE advertisement for book
keeper in New York paper brought 40
applications for the position.
ROBERT j. BURpErTE, the genial humor-
1st, has been elected deacon in his Baptist
Church, at Lower Merton, Pa.
AUNT PATsEY BUGa of Bugg's postofice
in Southwestern Kentucky, is lO5 years
old and is still able to ride horseback.
MOUNT HueaINa in New Hampshire is to
have summer hotel 1t ought to rival
kissimmee, Fla, as pleasure resort.
A PARK OF ninety-two acres has been se-
cured On the shore of Lake Ontario, near
Niagara, for canadian Chautauqua"
The total property in this country is sl5,-
OOo,OOOOOO This would make an average
ofabout 500 each if it were all divided up
ONE of the Pittsburgh natural gas com.
panies, whose plant is said to cost $500 900,
has an income from their gas of 81, ,GOO, 600
The Girard Trust of Philadelphia has
sent cubic block of anthracite coal to
the London exhibition, weighing 1926
pounds.
ALUM is now considered the best purifier
OF water, making it perfectly clear and
m xlyith ry;,,
or smell.
HENRY BINDERBAcK, member of the
Greely Arctic expedition, has been ap-
pointed an inspector of customs at salary
of a per day.
QUEENS seem to be trumps now. Victo-
ria IS celebrating her jubilee year and
hapiolani has been to Boston, sampling
baked beans.
ONLY that portion of tho male popula-
tion OF Germany which suffers from de-
1ormlty or chronic illness is exempt from
military duty.
AN awful precedent has been estab-
hshed In New York by the arrest of
young man for being incorrigibly lazy and
drag on his father"
TOPEKA, KAN, expects to have seventeen
miles of street railway track before the
close OF the year. Dummies will be run on
some of the streets.
The Santa Catama mountains in Arizona
are covered with petrified turtles, Holsters
and clans. The mountains are 10000 feet
above the level of the sea.
THE great Lick telescope near San Fran
cisco can not be got ready for use by the
1st OF July, as had been anticipated, but
Will be much behind that time.
CHICAGO has home for workingwomep
an which lodging is ten cents and breakfast
fve cents. The home is supported by
ladies' from different churches.
SECRETARY ENpIcoTT has decided to do
away with the practice of making military
prisoners carry heavy logs for punish.
ment. He considers the custom bar
barous.
MRS. GLADSTONE nearly always accom-
panies her husband to the House of Com
mons, and she never fails to wrap stout
comforter round his neck when he leaves
for home.
ARBoR DAY appears far more than q mere
sentiment when we consider that it has
already planted over six hundred million
forest trees in States west of the Missis-
sippi river
A PANA Oil. man tied cat in a bag and
took 1t to Morrisonville, more than twenty
miles away, and there released it. Three
or four days later he found the cat at his
door in Pana
EVERY thing points to a ''boom." The
hotel men in New York City say that they
were never so short in accommodations
for the crowds of business men who are
there from all parts of the country.
A fREIGHT-CAR was left at Chippewa
Falls, Wis, by a north-bound train. 1t
was marked "perishable goods" When
the agent opened the door after the de-
parture of the. traiu out walked four
tramps.
PARIsIANs are wearing dress suits made
in one piece. The waistcost has no back.
the shirt consists of front, the cuffs are
stitched into the coat sleeves, and O single
set of buttons fixes ON the whole con-
trivance.
THERE are only three cities in the world
WHICH have q larger Scandinavian popula-
tion than Minneapolis. They are Chris
tania, Stockholm and Copenhagen. Min
neapolis has $1,000 Scandinavians.
A GEORGIA lawyer complains that any
body who owns copy of the Georgia Code
and can borrow six dollars can gain ad.
mission to the bar in that State.
LEU CHANG, by q special act OF the Leg
1slature, has just been admitted to prac,
tice in the New York courts. Mr.. Chang,
as the pioneer lawyer of his race in Amer.
ica, has shown great aptitude for his